Changing Places Flashcards
Describe the setting of Chipping Campden
In the county of Gloucestershire, 26 miles from Cheltenham. Situated in the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Campden has buildings dating back to 17th century and has the classic limestone buildings. It’s at th start of the Cotswold way
Describe Campdens history
Campden was originally a market town which traded wool and other animal products
Famous through Europe for being one of the most important wool towns
Most of st James church is 500 years old and built from money from the flourishing wool trade in Campden
The wide roads in campden are there to allow the sheep to be herded through
Name a benefactor of the town and what he did
Sir Baptist Hicks built the armshouses in 1612 for 12 poor pensioners who he looked after. They cost £1000 to build and has his coat of arms on top of the doors
Cultural characteristics of Campden
1881 close to all the residents in Campden would have been English due to little immigration.
2011 97% of residents aged 3 or over were English in campden showing very little change in immigration
2.4% of Campdens population made up of European nationalists
Many of these are polish who started coming to England since 2004 when Poland joined the EU
Food outlets have changed in Campden to cater for this with an Indian and Chinese restaurant
Near place
Local area in which people live, work and places they visit regularly
Far place
Global in scale and include both physical and virtual places
Media places
The virtual world which undermines the traditional relationship between physical and social setting
Experienced places
Places which are know. And have been visited
What is a place
A location with meaning
Location
A point in space with specific links to other points in space
Identity
Ways in which people connect to a place
Sense of place
Subjective and emotional attachments people have to a place
Locale
Settings where built and social elements interconnect
What 3 aspects make up concept of place
- Location
- Locale
- Sense of place
Outsider place - rural England
- immigrants often moved to cities in last bc of easier travelling and more jobs
- immigrants more likely to move to city - more safe - more people of same culture + language
- ethnic minorities + black - little connection to rural England
- organisations - e.g YHA, National Trust have few black members - underrepresented
Mosaic
- National project - links black/ethnic minority’s w organisations above e.g YHA
Exogenous factors
Factors that are caused by or have an origin from without (external)
Endogenous factors
Factors caused by or originate from within
Endogenous factors elements
- Land use (e.g agricultural)
- Built environment (old, modern)
- Infrastructure (rail connections, roads, airports)
- Economic characteristics (primary, secondary, tertiary)
- Demographic characteristics (ethnic jake-up)
- Topography (hills)
- Physical geography (floodplain)
- Location (coastal location)
Croyde: representation
- used to be based on agriculture - suffered 1990s
- employment opportunities limited - ageing population (outmigration)
- community spirit lost
- surfing used as re-imaging tool - attracts youths - diversity
- Croyde’s Gold Coast Oceanfest in summer - attracts tourists - premium surfing location
- locals do B&Bs and farmers rent fields for caravan parks
- surfing helped croyde with new image
Detroit Soup: forces for change
Occurred 2016
- Members of public pay $5 - get soul, salad, bread and a vote
- during evening 4 presenters share ideas - winner gets all the money and puts it towards community improvements
- the empowerment plan example
- won 2010- social project
- non-profit organisations n- employs homeless people to makes coats which convert to sleeping bags - given to homeless
- most high profile success from Detroit soup
- media picked up - shown on bbc - attracted investors - funds project
Population change in Detroit
- population increased over 6 times from 1900-1990
- Nearly 1.9 million at its peak in 1950
- African-Americans started to increase from 1950s
- 1910 over 98% people white, 1990, just over 20% people white
Race riots Detroit
1967
- police raided unlicensed bar
- 4 day long riot started
- Build-up of resentment/frustration from African-Americans
- Housing discrimination against blacks
- Many abandoned buildings never rebuilt
- Another wave of white flight
1943
- 3 blacks promoted by Packard Motor Car Company
- Whites went on protest - started riot on blacks
- 34 killed
- The start of white flight
